First Draft by Jo Wright | One Poem Only

One Poem Only · Mar 30, 2026 · 1m

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First Draft

Jo Wright

I don’t want AI.

I want bees and seas

Deep evergreen forests

Great honeycombs

Icecaps.

Just, knowledgeable lovers

Men needing others

People questioning rhetoric

Speaking truth

Understanding Vaccinations

A world where we exclude no one

Years where there is still ozone.

I want words to matter

And when I draft my patter

I don’t want my phone to ask

‘Can I rewrite that for you?’

I want credit where credit’s bloody due

And throwing that swear word in

Stops…